Dumping-car.



R. R. WEAVER.

DUMPING CAR. APPHCATION FILED' MAY 13, I915.

Patented Feb. 1, 1916.

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THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0., WASHINGTON, D. c.

R. R.-WEAVER.

DUMPING CAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13, 1915.

Patented Feb. 1, 1916.

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A [lorney rm; COLUAHHA PLANUURAPILCKL. WASHINGTON, u. c.

UNITED srrns rr ROBERT E. WEAVER, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE RALSTON STEEL GAR COMPANY, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

DUMPING-CAR.

Application filed May 13, 1915.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, ROBERT R. WEAVER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dumping-Cars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to dumping cars,

l the present improvements being particularly adaptable for cars of the hopper type, and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings; Figure 1 is a plan view, partly in section on the lines 11 of Fig. 3 and with portions of the superstructure omitted; Fig. 2 is a view partly in longitudinal section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 and partly in side elevation; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view; Fig. 4: is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1 showing the construction between the hopperand the end of the car frame, and Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view of an inclined end hopper floor.

1, 1, represent the side sills of the car underframe which, in the present instance, are so placed that their webs shall be disposed vertically, and may be made in the form of channel beams. connected at their ends by end-sills 2, the lower flanges of which project inwardly. Channel iron side stakes 3 are secured to the side sills, and at the ends of the latter, corner posts 4: are located,.the upper ends of said corner posts being connected by cross beams 5, to which the upper ends of the front and rear inclined hopper sheets are secured. Draft sills 6, 6, are so disposed as to project forwardly beyond the end sills and to extend rearwardly to the inclined end sheets of the hopper body, to which they are secured. Angle beams 7 are secured to the draft sills at or near the forward ends of the latter and extend to the corners of the underframe, where they are secured. Bolsters 8, 8, are suitably located rearwardly of the respective end sills and are secured at Specification of Letters Patent.

The side sills 1 are Patented Feb. 1, 1916.

Serial No. 27,898.

their outer ends to the side sills and at their inner ends to the draft sills.

Those portions of the car underframe from the hopper to and beyond the end sills, are covered by fixed floor plates 9. The forward end of each floor plate is secured to the forwardly projecting angle beams 7 and passes under the end sill to which it is riveted. The side edges of each floor sheet are secured to the side sill, and the rear ends of said floor sheets are provided with downwardly projecting flanges 10 riveted to the inclined hopper sheets.

Secured to and extending from one bolster to the other, are longitudinal auxiliary or sub-sills 11 spaced comparatively short distances from the side sills 1,said auxiliary or sub-sills serving not only to increase the strength and rigidity of the underframe, but also perform other important and useful functions as hereinafter explained.

Brackets 12 are disposed between the side stakes 3 and the inclined side sheets near the discharge end of the hopper body and serve to brace said inclined hopper sheets. These brackets are also secured to the sub-sills and to the side sills by means of angle bars 13, the latter being secured at their inner ends upon the sub-sills and connected at their outer ends with the webs of the side sills by means of angle irons 14:. Plates 15 are secured at their outer ends upon the upper edges of the sub-sills and at their inner edges, these plates are made with inclined flanges 16 bearing against and suitably secured to the inclined side hopper sheets near the lower ends of the latter,-said plates thus augmenting the functions of the brackets in bracing the inclined portions of the hopper sides.

Each end portion of the hopper body is made inclined upwardly and outwardly downwardly projecting flanges 19. The flanged intermediate sections or sheets 1-8 serve to stiffen the inclined end floors of the hopper, and the flanges 19 are extended below the lower ends of the hopper end floors and secured between the rear end portions of the draft sills.

Stakes 20 are secured at their lower ends to each end sill 2 approximately over the draft sills, and at their upper ends, these stakes are secured to the top cross beams .5 To the upper portions of these stakes, the upper ends of the flanges 19 of the inclined hopper floor sections 18 are rigidly connected. To intermediate portions of the flanges 19 of hopper floor sections 18, the upper ends of inclined braces 22 are secured by means of suitable gussets, and the lower forward ends of these inclined braces are secured at the lower ends of the end stakes 20.

A transversely disposed angle beam 23 (preferably in the form of an I-beam) is located under the rear portion of each inclined end floor of the hopper and may be sustained at or near its ends by the subsills 11, and intermediate of its ends by the draft sills. The transverse beams 23 serve to assist in stiffening and strengthening the underframe, and they also constitute supports for channeled brace bars 24 for the lower rear portions of the end floor portions of the hopper. The channeled brace bars 'are secured upon the transverse beams 23 so that their webportions shall be disposed vertically, and the upper flanges 25 of said brace bars are inclined to conform to the inclination of the hopper floor end sections 17, 17, against which latter they rest and to which they may be secured. In order to further insure the rigidity of the sectional hopper end floors, transverse bars 26 may be secured to the sections 17,17, and bent at their intermediate portions to span the intermediate flanged section 18.

Inaddition to the functions hereinbefore ascribed to the auxiliary longitudinal or sub-sills 11, they also serve to assist in supporting the horizontal floor plates beyond the ends of the lower portion of the hopper body. The sub-sills also provide convenient and eflicient means to which to hinge the drop doors (illustrated at 28) for the hopper. In utilizing said sills for this purpose, hinge brackets 26 are secured to their inner faces and rest against the inclined side sheets of the hopper at the lower ends of the same. Two sets of such hinge brackets are employed (one set at each side of the door opening of the hopper bottom) and the plates 16 extend over the brackets 26 of the two sets and are secured at their respective edges to the sub-sills 11 and the inclined side hopper sheets.

Various slight changes might be made in the details of construction of my invention dumping doors, saidbrackets disposed between said sub-sills and the sides of the hopper body and rigidly; secured to both.

In a dumping car, the combination with an underframe comprising side and end sills and'bolsters, and a hopper body,

of longitudinal sub-sills near the side sills and secured to the bolsters, brackets secured to the side and sub-sills and engaging the inclined side sheets of the hopper body, and plates extending from the inclined side hopper sheets to the sub-sills and secured to both. I v

3. In a dumping car, the combination with an under'frame comprisingfside and end sills and bolsters, a hopper body, and side stakes secured to the side sills, of longitudinal sub-sills near the side sills and secured to the bolsters, brackets disposed 'be tween the inclined side hopper sheets and said stakes, and angle bars securedto the lower portions of said brackets and to the side sills and the longitudinal sub-sills.

4. In a dumping car, the combination with an underfr ame, of a hopper body having inclined end floors each comprising three sections secured together, the intermediate section of each end floor having outwardly projecting flanges at its longitudinal edges, and means securing intermediate portions and the lower end portions of said flanges to the underframe.

5. In a dumping car, the combination with an underfraine, and draft sills, of a hopper body having inclined end floors each 7 comprising three sections secured together, the central section having outwardly pro-. jecting flanges at its longitudinal edges, said flanges depending between the draft sills and secured to the draft sills.

.6. 'In a dumping car, the combination with an underframe, of' a hopper body having inclined end floors, each comprislng three sections secured together, each central section having outwardly projecting flanges at its longitudinal edges, and inclined braces secured to said flanges intermediate of their ends and to the endsof the underframe. V

7, In a dumping car, the combination with an underframe, of a hopper body hav-' ing inclined end floors, each comprising three sections secured together, the inter- In testimony whereof, I have signed this mediate section having outwardly projectspecification in the presence of two subscribing flanges at its longitudinal edges, means lng Witnesses.

connecting said flanges With the under- ROBERT R. WEAVER. frame, and a transverse bar secured to two Vitnesses:

sections of each hopper end floor and span- C. H. WVEBER,

ning the flanged intermediate section. T. LIVINGSTON.

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